Autonomous Mobile Clinics: Empowering Affordable Anywhere Anytime Healthcare Access

TL;DR

This paper proposes a three-stage technical roadmap for autonomous mobile clinics to improve healthcare access, equity, and efficiency globally by integrating autonomous mobility, telemedicine, and AI-driven primary care.

Contribution

It introduces a novel three-stage plan to develop and deploy autonomous mobile clinics, combining mobility, telemedicine, and AI to address healthcare disparities and inefficiencies.

Findings

Proposes a three-stage roadmap for autonomous mobile clinics.

Highlights integration of AI doctors with telemedicine.

Envisions universal healthcare through mobile clinics.

Abstract

We are facing a global healthcare crisis today as the healthcare cost is ever climbing, but with the aging population, government fiscal revenue is ever dropping. To create a more efficient and effective healthcare system, three technical challenges immediately present themselves: healthcare access, healthcare equity, and healthcare efficiency. An autonomous mobile clinic solves the healthcare access problem by bringing healthcare services to the patient by the order of the patient's fingertips. Nevertheless, to enable a universal autonomous mobile clinic network, a three-stage technical roadmap needs to be achieved: In stage one, we focus on solving the inequity challenge in the existing healthcare system by combining autonomous mobility and telemedicine. In stage two, we develop an AI doctor for primary care, which we foster from infancy to adulthood with clean healthcare data. With the AI doctor, we can solve the inefficiency problem. In stage three, after we have proven that the autonomous mobile clinic network can truly solve the target clinical use cases, we shall open up the platform for all medical verticals, thus enabling universal healthcare through this whole new system.